clues in too far to walk book

[thrillchaser]

major clue might not be the unintended clue

[woollybugger]

Feb 7, 2020 11:28:12 GMT -5 thrillchaser said:

lots going on here. I get you on the unintended clue not being in the preface. too far to walk can still equal 10 miles and be a hint. or in another thread it is equated to more than a few miles.

so go not far. probably not over 10 miles. but go more than a few.

Hi thrillchaser, I'd argue that if you're going to write a book with the same name as a line of the poem, including the distance unintentionally seems unlikely. I think it's a valid consideration for those that want to use that as their distance, but I don't think that would be the unintended clue.

[thrillchaser]

so it looks like we all agree the unintended clue is not the map after this discussion. and it's not in the preface.

[heidini]

I like the giant typewriter picture. Occupies the whole page. “Underwood”!

[zaphod73491]

Feb 10, 2020 23:49:00 GMT -5 heidini said:

I like the giant typewriter picture. Occupies the whole page. “Underwood”!

Typewriters are a subtle hint. There is the Underwood (!) one on page 257 of TFTW that you mentioned, and also Jackie Onassis Kennedy at her Royal typewriter on page 143 of TFTW.

[goldilocks]

Hi Zap, do you think the typewriter is a reference to a keyboard? I've often wondered if we are supposed to look quickly down at our keyboard.

[zaphod73491]

Hi Goldilocks: I think it's more specific to old typewriters. For instance, our modern keyboards have a 1 key. Old manual typewriters did not due to physical space considerations--the lower case L served double duty.

[me9]

Preston: Okay, the question was, you’ve been giving clues on the Today Show and he heard the last clue was that it’s not in Idaho, and not in Utah. Have you given out any other clues since then?

Forrest: Not deliberately.

McGarrity: Just the accidental one in the book.

Forrest: But you know, those clues are not really viable. Because if you look at a map of the Rocky Mountains, there’s this much of it that’s in Idaho, and this much is in Utah. I haven’t given a clue, I think, that was going to help anybody substantially.

Collected Works 10/23/2013

[me9]

Q: Are there clues in the TFTW book? “Yes, because the map is in the book.”

dalneitzel.com/cheat-sheet/

[astree]

Feb 13, 2020 8:22:02 GMT -5 me9 said:

Q: Are there clues in the TFTW book? “Yes, because the map is in the book.”

dalneitzel.com/cheat-sheet/

Several points inferred from the quote below

1) “map” can have several meanings
2) “box” can have several meaning (people seem to confuse his “get in the box” with “thinking outside the box”)

generalization

Forrest gives different meanings to words using context

mysteriouswritings.com/featured-question-with-forrest-fenn-and-the-thrill-of-the-chase-treasure-hunt-its-a-map/

Stop arm chairing that thing to death and get out in the trees where the “box” is, but before you go, look at the poem as if it were a map, because it is, and like any other map, it will show you where to go if you follow its directions. f

[theoretical]

Here’s a random thought. Why and wise (Y) are in the poem. Perhaps the placement of the Y in Rocky Mountains on the map below Bozeman and near Yellowstone was an unintended clue?

[thrillchaser]

I've been looking. I think it is when he hid the chest. he says he went to yellowstone about the time.

[woollybugger]

The unintended clue, in my opinion, is the typo in the poem.

In TTOTC: The answers I already know,
In TFTW: The answer I already know,

This suggests, at least for this part of the poem, that acrostics, letter counting and similar are not part of the solution.

[annie]

Feb 7, 2020 7:45:40 GMT -5 Jenny said:

Thanks so much Zap and Loco.....

From those comments it certainly sounds like it is the map. He wrote the book, how could he not 'know' there was a clue in the book until it was printed, except for the map?


So ok, the map is most likely the 'unintended clue'...... but as mentioned, that doesn't mean there aren't other hints/clues in the book that Forrest is aware of.

I think the unintended clue wasn’t something Forrest had written. It was “BENCHMARK” which relates to the answer to clue no six in the poem. 
A x

[annie]

Clue no six. No six. IS ON X = a benchmark ( is marked as a X on a map). Forrest always said you needed a good map, topographic maps give us details like benchmarks and other important features.
A x